User talk:Michael Derfler

Welcome!
Hello, Michael Derfler, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Alephb (talk) 01:54, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

A General Note on Adding One's Own Material
Hello Michael, and welcome to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I've got to let you know that Wikipedia discourages people from adding their own books to pages. It's part of our broader policy regarding conflicts of interests, which you can find at WP:COI. There's also the issue that we generally don't use self-published works as sources, as outlined at WP:RS.

I know that might be quite a bit of policy stuff to throw at a new editor, but I thought you should get some explanation of why the information you added has been removed. Alephb (talk) 02:00, 14 December 2018 (UTC)